Word: watt
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WHEN Harvard mailed the acceptance letters for the Class of '94, University administrators boasted of the fact that they had admitted many more international students than they ever had before. They cited a Nigerian from Hong Kong and a Kenyan from Singapore. Their joy reminded me of James Watt proclaiming a fully integrated cabinet by citing all of the different kinds of minorities who were represented...
Everybody loves the Cronyns. Other actors hold them in awe, audiences adore them, and the critics long ago exhausted the ordinary words of praise to describe their performances. "Let us celebrate the Cronyns," gushed the New York Daily News's Douglas Watt when they last appeared on Broadway, in 1986. But then who could say anything bad about Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, the husband and wife who, working together and separately, define acting in America...
...heat up so high. (In summer switch the direction of the blades and increase the speed. The wind chill will make it feel like 72 degrees, even though the thermostat's set at 78 degrees.) A ceiling fan, says the weather lady, takes no more energy than a 100-watt light bulb...